[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 109 (Friday, June 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33921-33922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14344]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-122-839]


Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada: Notice of Extension 
of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty New 
Shipper Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Greynolds or Gayle Longest, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
6071 or 482-3338, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 31, 2002, the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) initiated a new shipper review relating to 
the countervailing duty order on certain softwood lumber products from 
Canada, covering the period January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. 
See Certain Softwood Lumber From Canada: Notice of Initiation of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review for the Period May 22, 2002, 
Through October 31, 2002; Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty 
New Shipper Review for the Period January 1, 2002, Through December 31, 
2002; and Rescission of Countervailing Duty Expedited Review, January 
8, 2003 (68 FR 1030). The respondent in this new shipper review is 
Scierie Lapointe & Roy Ltee (Lapointe & Roy). The current deadline for 
the preliminary results of this review is June 30, 2003. Section 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires the Department to make a preliminary determination within 180 
days after the date on which the new shipper review was initiated. 
However, when the Department determines a case is extraordinarily 
complicated such that it cannot complete the review within this time 
period, section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act allows the Department to 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination from 180 days 
to a maximum of 300 days.
    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the Department has 
determined that this case is extraordinarily complicated given the 
number of programs and the complexity of the calculations used to 
derive the benefit from these programs. See Decision Memorandum from 
Melissa G. Skinner,

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Director, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, to Holly A. Kuga, Acting 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, dated concurrently with this notice, which 
is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main Commerce 
building. Thus, in accordance with the statutory and regulatory 
authority cited above, the Department is extending the deadline for 
issuing the preliminary results of this new shipper review by 120 days 
to no later than October 27, 2003. We plan to issue the final results 
within 90 days after the date the preliminary results are issued.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of 
the Act.

    Dated: May 28, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 03-14344 Filed 6-5-03; 8:45 am]
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